Posts Tagged ‘parking lot’
Monday, June 10th, 2013
I’ll ask you, have you ever been to a bad Cirque du Soleil?
Now, supposedly we had a bad one blow through town a few years back down at the Cow Palace. Your local MSM Arts crew was non-enthusiastic – not all of them wanted to go review it, see? So comped tickets made it all the way down to people involved with lesser blogs, such as your truly.
And I’ll tell you, C du S in that ugly, ugly Daly City concrete blockhouse was awesome. They had like 17 bits to do and 16 of them were very impressive or better. And keep in mind that this was an older show that was put on not under the big tent.
So now we have a brand new show coming to town starting November 15th, 2013.
The time to buy tickets for it is right now. You’ll thank yourself later on.
All the deets:
AMALUNA UNDER THE BIG TOP
ACCESS TICKETS BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE
Bonjour. Time is quickly running out for the pre-sale ofAmaluna in Northern California — tickets will be made available to the general public on June 14.*
San Francisco, CA
At AT&T Park
Opening November 15, 2013
> Buy pre-sale tickets
San Jose, CA
At Taylor Street Bridge – E Lot
Opening January 22, 2014
> Buy pre-sale tickets
Don’t miss this last chance to secure the best seats before everyone else!
We look forward to seeing you under the Big Top!
À bientôt !
PREVIEW THE SHOW
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Well, at least for this particularly oddly-shaped piece of real estate on Main Street near Folsom, the answer was this many:
“Last in, first out.” Click to expand.
I don’t know if this lot in SoMA is still around. The photo was taken from the office of a billionaire who was quite solicitous owing to a project he wanted to kick off before he himself kicked off.
Here’s what I wrote a half decade back:
It might be a pain to park here, under the shadow of the new Infinity San Francisco towers, but at least you won’t get the boot, or get into a chain reaction accident, or get all messy. Of course, if you work for San Francisco Honda, then just park wherever - the sidewalk, for example.
Lastly, DO NOT PAY THIS MAN!“
Tags: 2013, bay area, boot, california, califronia, cars, denver, folsom, Honda, lot, market, park, parking, parking lot, San Francisco, scam, sidewalk, soma, south, vehicle
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
It begins, on January 19th at 11:00 AM, actually:
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Since I oppose Rose Pak-style corruption, I suppose that makes me an “opponent of 8 Washington.” Learn about me here, from a very-well financed “grass-roots” campaign:
All right, in answer to the first graf:
Uh no, not actually, I just oppose Rose Pak-style corruption in San Francisco, that’s all. Isn’t she behind this or something? Isn’t she the worst person in San Francisco, a cancer on Chinatown?
In answer to the second graf:
Uh, no, I don’t care about swim and fitness. Maybe your anonymous campaign needs to broaden its scope? I mean, lots of people oppose corruption in San Francisco – they don’t have to live near 8 Washington to oppose 8 Washington, right?
In answer to the third graf:
Uh, how can a parking lot be “blight?” Actually, it probably looks like Heaven to our hassled tourists. And arent’ the people closely connected enough to SFGov to have a shot at this deal “elites.” by definition? #potkettleblack
Hey, how about this, why not change “opponents” to “some opponents?” Then you’d have a chance of being correct.
Enjoy your corruption, backers of 8 Washington.
Tags: 2011, 2012, 8, 8 Washington, bay area, building, california, car, Development, ed lee, financial district, hearing, january 19, lot, Mayor, notice, park, parking lot, planning commission, public, room 400, Rose Pak, San Francisco, sewall, street, Washington
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Our Teatro ZinZanni has a new home, but Sarah Duxbury says that some heavy lifting still needs to be done.
No matter, TZ’s cabaret performers were on hand all smiles yesterday at the news conference* in the “50 Broadway” parking lot near the Embarcadero. This location will be ZinZanni’s new home, if everything works out.
(I’ll tell you, I can’t tell the difference betwixt Gavin Newsom running the Newsom Administration and Ed Lee running the Newsom Adminstration, fundamentally. I mean, Ed Lee is not an impetuous asshole, so that means he behaves better, he tends to show up at these kinds of functions with a smaller entourage and less drama. That’s good, I s’pose…)
Oh, there he is, to the right of the gorgeous Martian(?) lady:
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See how this will work? The famous European tent they use will go behind the new building:
All the deets after the jump.
And get over to highly-rated ZinZanni (if you can still get tickets, perhaps on a Wednesday or Thursday) before they shut down on the night of December 31, 2011. It really is quite an experience.
* I didn’t stick around for the Bauer’s “Intelligent” Transportation part of the presser. You know, you really need to work hard at sucking to get a Yelp rating this low.** But Bauer’s is well-connected to SFGov, so there you go, there’s your bidness model.
**Even with the work of shill reviewers avec their bogus five-star ratings…
(more…)
Tags: 2009, 2011, 27-29, 27/29, 34th, 34th America’s Cup, America’s Cup, arts, bauer, Bauer’s Intelligent Transportation, Bauer’s Transportation, bay area, board, boat, broadway, cabaret, california, CEO, Challenger Series, David Chiu, dinner, district 3, district 6, ed lee, edwin, Edwin M. Lee, founder, gary bauer, home, intelligent, James Herman, James R. Herman, Jane Kim, jobs, Lee, limo, limousine, lot, Louis Vuitton Cup, Mayor, Mayor Ed Lee, Norman Langill, not-for-profit, OEWD, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, on the air, parking lot, Pier 27, pier 29, Pier 50, Piers 27/29, PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO, president, race, San Francisco, San Francisco Waterfront Special Area Plan, Sarah Duxbury, Supervisor, Teatro, Teatro ZinZanni, tenants, theatre, transportation, waterfront, yacht, yelp, ZinnZanni
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Well, I’ll tell you, I was worried about Costco’s unused electric charging stations last year, and now it looks like America’s favorite big box has given up on them, electing not to upgrade to this year’s flavor-of-the-month charging system, the au current J1772. (The chargers Costco installed in their parking lots back in The Aughts looked like they were from an electric car museum, covered so much with detritus and spider webs and whatnot they were.)
Anyway, electric car and plug-in hybrid drivers be pissed, you know, they’re saying, Who Killed the Electric Car Charging Stations?
But you know, if you live in the 415, your new Nissan Leaf all-electric car should be able to make it home anywho.
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Let’s ask, “Why would an electric car pioneer like Costco just give up now?” (They must have a rationale or two…)
This is quite a change from the heady days of 2006. Indeed, Costco has been offering electric chargers of some sort since the 1990′s:
“Costco offers 90 charging stations at 64 locations. Most of the stations are in California, with a handful in Arizona, New York and Georgia…The process couldn’t be simpler. Members park in reserved spaces, attach special paddles and head into the warehouse. By the time their shopping is done, their car should be, too.”
Now, some are saying that Costco is looking into / reviewing this issue, so who knows what will happen.
All right, here’s a bit from 2008 to show you what things looked like at San Francisco’s SoMA Costco back then:
“Whether your ride swings AC or DC, whether it needs MagneCharge or Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) “brand” electricity, Costo has got you covered. Shop at the store and buy a $1.50 hot dog and a Coke, all while recharging.
The future is now:
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The future hasn’t looked this bright for battery-electric vehicles (BEV) since 1895.”
Tags: 2010, 2011, bay area, big box, california, CEO, charger, charging, costco, electric, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, ev, hybrid, James Sinegal, leaf, magnecharge, nissan, park, parked, parking lot, plug-in, removal, San Francisco, soma, standard, Station, store, street, vehicle
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
The only way this SoMA parking lot can work is under the First In, First Out method, right?
(Now, if I parked here, I’d want a video app to let me keep an eye on my ride all day long from work, the way they have at those doggie daycare places.)
Can you imagine how many cars (don’t click, earworm earworm earworm!) they’d need to move just to get yours out?
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Here’s the unaltered view, taken from a visit to Don Fisher’s office in the loaded-to-the-gills-with-art Gap Building, before he passed on:
(Does the average car have a sunroof or no? Looks like about 70% of them have sun / moon rooves, IMO)
Is there a denser parking lot in town? I doubt it, unless you start counting the ones with car elevators…
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, cars, crowded, fifo, folsom, full, lifo, parking, parking lot, San Francisco, soma
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Via the excellent Uptown Almanac comes news of this anti-MUNI bumper sticker campaign:
Beej Weir with deets here and here.
“The bottom of the sticker reads: “ASSAULTING A PARKING CONTROL OFFICER IS A CRIME. SO DON’T GET CAUGHT.”- WACKO 1“
As previously noted, harsh.
“California Penal Code 241 — Assault, punishment. (“(b) When an assault is committed against the person of a parking control officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties, and the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should know that the victim is a parking control officer, the assault is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment.”
So much for “Good People, Tough Jobs.”
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
If you want the short version of what happened last night, take a look at Dave Golden’s great high-ISO photos with his Nikon on Flickr (which would not be possible to produce with Nikon digital equipment even just a few years ago) and this early report on SFGate and this rather negative take from KPIX. And see street party suppressor David Perry’s point of view here.
Or you can have the long version:
First, let’s travel back in time to San Francisco Halloween Past. It looked like this, with huge crowds in the Castro District:
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See the huge crowd?
Even crosstown rivals the San Francisco 49ers and the Oakland Raiders managed to get along:
But the word crowd starts with the letter “C” and that rhymes with “T” and that stands for Trouble.
So now in 2008, Halloween in San Francisco is officially cancelled, or not, depending you look at it. Last night we had this, a police effort to keep traffic moving through the Castro. At this, the SFPD generally succeeded. Because the spice must flow, you know:
Read all about it here, which reads like the official blog of the City and County of San Francisco. Now, of course you can still see what the old Halloween looked like, before the NIMBY homeowners of the Castro got their way, but just not as much of it.
Honoring the late Yves Saint Laurent:
Credit cards! Now, those can be scary, especially these days.
And speaking of scary, how does evidence of falling gas prices scare potential alernative vehicle investors?
Per reports, about 30 people were arrested in the Castro are for being drunk in public.
Anyway, that was unofficial San Francisco Halloween in the Castro. Some people didn’t show because they listened to the white men here.
As for Official San Francisco Halloween in Parking Lot A:
You could watch Godzilla for free with a handful of others…”
…or listen to a perfectly viable Latin jazz band with a couple hundred of others.
Turnout was about what you’d expect to get in a dark parking lot with heavy police presence.
Speaking of which, the city’s official free party is a magnet for young people and all the assorted trouble young people get into to. You can’t sneak in, so you have to go through a Super Bowl style security cattle chute. So the criminal element circles around the parking lot, attracted and yet repelled.
Add it all up, and the Castro area comes out ahead as far as personal safety is concerned. Next ranked would be inside the perimeter of Parking Lot A. Last ranked would be the area surrounding Parking Lot A. If you charged a cover, then you’d keep out the riff raff, but then why would people come?
A brief police detention on 3rd Street, just outside the official party near AT&T Park.
Possession of eggs on Halloween is not yet a crime, at least not yet, anyway.
Akit brings it all home for us on his blog.
On it goes.
Happy Halloween. See you next year in the Castro!
Tags: 2006, 2008, arrests, at&t park, costumes, david parry, david perry, halloween, home, market, parking lot, police, San Francisco, SFPD, street
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Well, at least for this particularly oddly-shaped piece of real estate on Main Street near Folsom, the answer is this many:
“Last in, first out.” Click to expand.
It might be a pain to park here, under the shadow of the new Infinity San Francisco towers, but at least you won’t get the boot, or get into a chain reaction accident, or get all messy. Of course, if you work for San Francisco Honda, then just park wherever - the sidewalk, for example.
Lastly, DO NOT PAY THIS MAN!
Now you’re all set.
Tags: boot, califronia, cars, denver, Honda, lot, park, parking, parking lot, San Francisco, scam, sidewalk, vehicle
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
It looks like the people at KPIX CBS-5 had it right last year when they repeatedly reported on the “parking hustle,” which involves people posing as lot attendants and pocketing some quick cash. Some parkers, such as Shane, get major bummed when they find out later on that they also need to pay the parking lot owner.
Why don’t people pay the actual real attendent? Because there isn’t one on duty in most cases. Why? Because that would cost money. But the folks over at Central Parking have found a way to warn drivers by posting a photo of one of the alleged imposters. How thoughtful.
Tags: Bay, central parking, Do Not Pay This Man, Embarcadero, Kearny, KPIX, McGoldrick, park, parking, parking hustle, parking lot, pay machine only, Pier 27, San Francisco, SFPD
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